John Harbaugh upset Terrell Suggs penalized on late kneeldown

Summary of 2 articles · Updated Sep 30, 2013

As Manuel was kneeling, he was hit by Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs. Ravens coach John Harbaugh was upset about the call, saying after the game that referee Jerome Boger said that the helmet coming off influenced the decision to make a call that Harbaug… (more)h thought was poor. I’m just disappointed that Terrell wasn’t able to cause a fumble there. Under those circumstances, it’s hard to know why Suggs shouldn’t have been trying to force a turnover using the necessary amount of roughness. Manuel lost his helmet and Suggs was flagged for unnecessary roughness, guaranteeing that the clock would run out before the Ravens got one last chance to pull off a miracle. The Bills were trying to run out the clock on their 23-20 victory over the Ravens late in the fourth quarter and quarterback E.J. Manuel took a snap and shuffled around for a few seconds before starting to take a knee.

It seems fairly obvious that when John Harbaugh and the Ravens entered the locker room at halftime, trailing by 13 points to a young and talented but inferior Buffalo Bills team, the head coach had seen enough.